"Unextended" watches are accumulating quickly, and after a while, almost clock-wakefulness, you start to go quietly go crazy. Sharp mood swings, depression, absent-mindedness, weakened intelligence, and even health problems (frequent headaches, exacerbation of chronic diseases, weight gain) is not a complete list of the consequences of lack of sleep.
Unfortunately, it's impossible to "sleep for the future"! The body compensates for lack of sleep, and therefore a person sleeps more after a sleepless night or a deeper sleep. However, this system begins to fail if the lack of sleep becomes permanent. With chronic lack of sleep, the body begins to suffer less stressful conditions, exacerbates various chronic diseases of internal organs (for example, tonsillitis or gastritis), there are deviations in the hormonal background, which leads to aggravation of existing hormonal diseases, weaken the immune system that protects the body from infections.
Night Vigils
The main reason for lack of sleep is the child's interrupted night's sleep. How to relate to this?
Any child, regardless of whether they are breastfeeding or breastfeeding, can sleep for up to 3-4 years without awakening for more than 6 hours in a row, but this is also a rarity, usually no more than 4-5 hours. What a normal person is normal (7-9 hours of constant sleep), for a tiny baby can not be considered acceptable. Newborns have a completely different sequence and duration of sleep phases: in an adult, a superficial sleep takes no more than 1/5 of the total duration of sleep, while a small child has up to 4/5. It is assumed that it is in the phase of superficial sleep that active and rapid development of the brain takes place.
Advice:
- In the evening, try to fall asleep immediately after the child falls asleep. If you really do not get enough sleep, try not to deal with their own affairs, when the child has fallen asleep - better rest yourself while there is such an opportunity.
- Before you leave the sleeping baby, stay close to it for about 20 minutes - about the time it takes to go from a phase of superficial sleep, which is easily interrupted, into a deep sleep. Then you do not have to go back to crumb again in a few minutes.
- Allocate yourself time to sleep with your child. Do not try to remake all the cases when the crumb has fallen asleep, it is better to lie down and sleep yourself: this will help to save the strength to study with the baby.
- Put the child to sleep with him.
Cons: will have to squeeze a little. Quite often, parents feel uncomfortable if there is a small child in their bed, afraid to pin it accidentally during sleep, which does not contribute to the full rest of mom and dad. The baby himself can develop a real dependence on the parents so that it will be difficult to wean him from sleeping together: there are examples when children sleep with their parents even when they are already going to primary school classes - the children are simply afraid to sleep alone in their beds.
- If the mother is very tired, took sleeping pills or allowed herself alcohol, then do not put your baby with you in one bed - preferably the option of "not close" sleeping together. In this case, the parent's bed and the baby's bed with the side wall removed or lowered in advance are facing each other. Mom, feeding the child in half-sleep, will not "walk around" and will be able to fully sleep, shifting the contented and sleeping child to his own bed.
- If the mother feels that she is better than 15 minutes to sleep alone than 2 hours with the baby, then it is better to sleep alone.
- There is another way to calm the child: you can put some thing around your baby's face that smells like you. The child will feel the mother's smell and assume that you are nearby and will not be nervous or worried.
- And of course, do not forget that there are people who are ready to help you: to sit or take a walk with the baby, help with the housework.
Another reason that can deprive you of a carefree dream is a previously unknown anxiety for your baby. A young mother does not always know what her child needs, because there must be time before she feels it and can understand his needs. And until the child's needs become as clear to you as your own, we will be tormented by questions: "Did I do the right thing? Did I give him what he wants? "
There is only one advice: you need time to understand your baby, to study his reaction to various stimuli, and to learn how to eliminate them. In a few weeks you will easily understand what your child wants. Be patient and be attentive to your child.
In addition, you will be responsible for the health of your baby: colic, runny nose, choppy teeth, vaccinations, trips to polyclinics - all this will make even the most balanced mom nervous.
Take care of yourself!
If you do not get enough sleep, improve your health will help:
- washing with cool water;
- contrast shower (cold water temperature 18-20 degrees, hot - 38-40, residence time under cold and hot water for 2-3 minutes, start better with hot water, and finish cold); - Evening walks before bedtime;
- playing sports (even with a child in his arms, several exhilarating physical exercises can be performed);
- planned "outings", for example, every second Saturday of the month the grandmothers sit with the child, and the mother can go to the pool or meet friends - then her mother will cease to seem that she, in caring for the child, was locked four walls. This will undoubtedly raise your spirits.